found online by Raymond
From Jon Perr at PERRspectives:
In his 2007 book The Assault on Reason, former Vice President Al Gore warned about what he saw as a dire threat to American democracy. “The ‘well-informed citizenry,'” Gore fretted, “is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience.'” In a presentation on Super Tuesday 2008 (“That’s Entertainment: Politics as Theater in Campaign ’08”), I elaborated on Gore’s alert.
When politics is entertainment, the first thing that suffers is the truth.
More than nine years later, the American people have a professional entertainer in the Oval Office.